Category: Top Dog

Picking my puppy (he’ll be 7-8 weeks) up in approx. 30 days. Should I start the process of setting up his health insurance? Should we start to buy all of his puppy stuff now

Or is it way too early lol? My boyfriend things I’m just excited and we should wait until it gets closer but I feel anxious and I want to prepare! Lol when did you all start the buying process ?

My now 1 year old golden is starting to be an absolute terror!

we haven’t done professional training because as a puppy he honestly was so easy to train ourselves. He potty trained quickly, great in public, loves other dogs and people, sleeps thru the night etc!

Recently, he’s been super active in the middle of the night, chewing on everything he’s not suppose too even though he has a million chews and bones for him that he normally loves!

Super reactive in public and around other dogs unless he’s off a leash

super active no matter how much exercise he gets!

And isn’t listening to any commands he definitely knows!

He gets these crazy spurts of energy where all he wants to do is bite us and redirection/ time outs nothing works!

We are looking into professional trainers to work with us but just wanted to see if anyone else has advice or tricks 😭 no one is sleeping and our entire day is spent trying to exhaust him.

What a crock of ****

I have a 6-month-old puppy. She gets dinner between 17:00 and 18:00. Sometimes she poops right after; sometimes it takes an hour or two. When my husband and I have a dinner date and will need to leave at 17:30, let’s say, should I feed her at 16:00 or wait until we get home around 21:00? I worry that she won’t do her business before we have to crate her. (She has breakfast between 06:00 and 07:00 and gets some treats here and there throughout the day.) What do you usually do in these situations?

My dog is a 10 month old corgi mix.

My condo HOA is terrible about warning us about work happening. The other day, while in a meeting (WFH) with my dog asleep in his crate, I looked out the sliding glass door and saw a man on my 8th floor deck. I jumped a little, which woke my dog up, and he lost his mind. We left the room and there was another man outside the bedroom window, and another walking on the roof (audible through the ceiling). As a woman, I appreciate my dog alerting me to men being where they shouldn’t be.

Today, someone is on the roof again, so we’re hearing loud footsteps and the ceiling is creaking, and they’ll probably be there for an hour or so. My dog is spooked again, he isn’t barking, but his body language is very concerned and he’s “wuf”-ing.

What do you do in this situation?

If a crate is too big I get that the puppy will go toilet one side and sleep the other, but will this slow down potty training, if it was smaller would my pup still have accidents in the house etc?

13 week old Frenchie (yes I know a baby still) knows to pee outside, but she doesn't give me any signs to go and will sometimes watch me as she squats to pee. Doing all the usual like out ecvery 30 mins or so treats and praise etc

Hi all!

Sorry for the BILLIONs of posts I’ve made.

Can you all please comment essentials that you recommend I buy before getting my 8 week old puppy? Thank you!